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Mile

A measure of length, containing a thousand paces. Eight _stadia_ or furlongs make a mile. This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
G3400
Greek
μίλιον · milion

Strong’s and original-language information

G3400

μίλιον · milion

Glosses: mile

a Roman mile, milliarium , = 1000 paces,= 8 stades, = 1680 yards, i. e. 80 yards less than our mile, (Polybius Historicus), etc.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Mile

(from Lat. mille, "a thousand;" Matt. 5:41), a Roman measure of 1,000 paces of 5 feet each. Thus the Roman mile has 1618 yards, being 142 yards shorter than the English mile.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

MILE

a measure of length, containing a thousand paces. Eight _stadia_ or furlongs make a mile. The Romans commonly measured by miles, and the Greeks by furlongs.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references3 references

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Topical Bible

Naves Topical

MILE

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for MILE.
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Sources

Ancient Context2 items

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